One day when I retire, I want to open a bird santuary, hire a vet to work it, while I play with them. Red Oak Mountain in Al, has got a great one. I will send Terry pics , and he can post them. When I lived there I was helping with the owls. We had one who got injured, and I fixed its boo boos. I love Owls.

They are so fantastic! I love them. You must had been really paying attention to see them, they are hard to see here. I miss them all the times in the trees, I only see the owls when they are perched on my deck railing. The absolute coolest bird. I will have to get out my owl pics this weekend, I am holding the injured one on my arm. I had a hard time walking past the pet store yesterday, I wanted to go in and buy a finch.

Mark, how often do you see those owls?
Aren't they great, you are so lucky to see them in the trees. I get so excited whenever they come down to the deck.

I am lucky in the sense I got alot of wildlife on my property. My neighbor had a black bear come down to hers, she felt alittle different, lol.

These robins nest at my house, on the windowsill of my garage every year(last 5 years or so). I wait till they're done with the nest and then clean it off. They rebuild again in the spring. I was worried that getting that close they might not come back, but they don't seem to care.
steve

I'm well aware of how noisy they can be, especially when your year old dog thinks it is APPROPRIATE to bark at them at 4:30 AM(which is when it starts getting light this far north) But, it's still cool to see some nature out here in the boondocks of Alberta....

I don't know about the dog barking, but, I love waking up to 2 sounds, either birds or the ocean, they both are so relaxing. I have a red cardinal who can say one word, " wierdo." He can say it really clear and it is really funny, he says it over and over. I love it.

I have a humming bird feeder on the deck outside my bedroom...
Very Cool!
I'm still trying to get pics but they are very tough to catch a shot of!
Very skitish!

We have a lot of nesting ospreys around here.
Its pretty wild watching them catch fish...
They are just flying along circling looking...
Then all of a sudden they just crash into the water...
Almost like that has to hurt...
Then they take off again with a fish in their claws...

Sometimes when I'm fishing I feed them...
Catch a fish and injure it so its not swimming too well...
Throw it back in and wait for the osprey to get it...
Watch them slam the fish 10 feet from the boat...
Not just cool its awesome!